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ZACR Hits a Million .za Names
August 19, 2015 @ 11:30 PMSouth Africa’s .za ccTLD has crossed the one million domain mark, according to the registry. ZA Central Registry is currently reporting on its web site that 1,000,666 names have been registered. The millionth name was reportedly vulindlela-hpt.co.za, registered to a consulting firm and inexplicably redirecting to the typo vulindlela-htp.co.za. CEO Lucky Masilela reportedly said: “ZACR…
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Verisign Presses Network Solutions for Details On .xyz Registrations
August 19, 2015 @ 9:03 AMCompany files motion to compel Network Solutions’ parent company to provide a witness. Verisign has filed a motion (pdf) in a Florida court to compel Web.com, parent company of Network Solutions, to provide a witness to testify about how the registrar accounted for free .xyz domain names. Network Solutions gave away perhaps hundreds of thousands…
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Registrants Guilty Until Proven Innocent, Say UK Cops
August 19, 2015 @ 7:41 AMUK police have stated an eyebrow-raising “guilty until proven innocent” point of view when it comes to domain name registrations, in comments filed recently with ICANN. In a Governmental Advisory Committee submission (pdf) to a review of the Whois accuracy rules in the Registrar Accreditation Agreement, unspecified “UK law enforcement” wrote: Internet governance efforts by…
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Web.com Shares Drop 12% On Data Breach News
August 19, 2015 @ 6:12 AMShares plummet after credit card information is stolen. It’s a down start to the day for stock markets in general, but domain name and hosting company Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) is having a particularly bad day. Shares are trading down about $3.00 to $20.81 at the time of writing. That’s about a 12% drop. The move…
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Washington Post Covers Several New gTLD's & Asks: Who Needs .com?
August 19, 2015 @ 4:50 AMNew gTLD’s continue to be in the spotlight and today the WashingtonPost.com covers them, asking “Who Needs .com? Domains When .Vegas, .PR, .NYC are Trending” well, lets take a look at this and see if .com is needed?
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Web.com Hacked, 93,000 Cards Stolen
August 19, 2015 @ 12:52 AMThe credit card details of 93,000 Web.com customers have been stolen by hackers. The name, address and credit card number of the affected customers were accessed. The verification numbers (from the back of the cards) were not stolen. Web.com said the attack was discovered August 13 and has been reported to the proper authorities. Network…
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Transfer of Internet domain-name oversight delayed by U.S.
August 18, 2015 @ 10:25 PMIn a climate of international mistrust over how the U.S. government handles Internet data, the Commerce Department said Monday that it would delay by at least a year its plan to cede authority over the global address system for the Web.
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Web.com Breached, 93k Credit Card Details Might Be Compromised
August 18, 2015 @ 1:52 PMLarge domain name registrar discloses security breach. Web.com announced today that a security breach might have disclosed credit card information of 93,000 of its customers. The company owns Network Solutions and Register.com. Although most domain name investors use lower-cost registrars, many have accounts with these registrars for expired domain names. The registrars don’t necessarily have…
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Enom Joins Sedo Fast Transfer Network
August 18, 2015 @ 11:47 AMeNom clients can now sell their domain names through SedoMLS. Sedo has added eNom to its SedoMLS system in a partnership that opens open millions more potential domains to be sold through Sedo’s sales distribution platform. The deal enables eNom account holders and resellers to list their domains with SedoMLS. These domain listings are then…
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So What Happens When There is a .abc? Disney Applied for It & Its Coming
August 18, 2015 @ 9:54 AMAfter announcing it selected the domain name abc.xyz for its holding company Alphabet, Google has been going around buying all sorts of “abc” domain names. Last week we told you that Google bought ABC.Global. Onlinedomain.com spotted 78 new gTLD’s that Google registered using “abc. Last night .Club registry announced on Twitter that Google bought ABC.club…
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